418 The Fate of the World, As Destiny Dictated and Her Vision Foretold (2/2)

He could not tell whether it was just a courtesy from the tribe or if this gesture had other meanings. Nevertheless, he decided not to bother too much about it and proceeded to the door leading to the room of the elder and her grandchildren were staying.

Mark was about to knock when he heard the lock on the door was removed. He could not help but retract his hand and let the door open.

There, a girl about sixteen or seventeen opened the door.

\”Please... Enter...\” The girl said nervously. \”Grandmother... Grandmother expected you to come.\”

She stepped aside letting Mark and Mei enter. On the bed, an elder sat with her eyes closed while a young boy fed her some porridge that they seemed to have prepared earlier before Mark and his group arrived.

The elderly woman then signaled the boy to stop feeding her and faced Mark who stood by the door.

\”I had been waiting for you. Savior.\”

The elder spoke with her old and a bit hoarse voice. Yet, somehow, her voice sounded clear to the ears of those that heard it.

Still, Mark could not help but frown. No wonder Professor Suzuki was making fun of him. No one told him about this either.

For him to be called a \”Savior\”, he was not worthy. Such an address should go to those with a hero complex to save everyone they wanted to save. Not for a person who would not hesitate to kill like him.

Sensing his mood, the elder spoke once more.

\”I'm sorry, I should not have addressed you in such a way if I knew that you would dislike it.\”

\”Mark, just call me Mark,\” He spoke. \”What is this savior thing that you just said? Why would you call me with that?\”

Of course, Mark would ask that.

To his question, the elder smiled.

\”There is no other reason actually. I know you feel that I'm just not a normal person. Yes, I am not. I am the leader and the Seer of our tribe in this generation.\”

The elder tried to open her eyes to look at Mark. However, sure enough, she could barely see anything.

\”A Seer,\” Mark repeated. \”So, you can see the future?\”

Hearing that, the elder shook her head.

\”Unfortunately, a Seer like me is not that capable. I can only see signs about things that I needed to know. Just like I ended up calling you Sir a \”Savior\”. From the signs given to me, we found this place. It was because the person that could lead the remaining of our tribe to salvation should be in this place.\”

\”And that is me, isn't it?\”

Mark said which the elder nodded to.

\”I can't be mistaken. You are the person that the signs had told me about.\”

The elder then squinted her eyes as she looked at Mark.

\”My eyes could already be bad. However, I can still see that you and that woman behind you are different from most people on Earth.\”

Mark fell silent while Mei grasped his hand as she intently listened to the elder.

\”Everyone in the world is shrouded by the energy called fate. The destiny that dictated the outcome of their lives. The string that pulled them into the events that happened in their lives. Everyone had differences. Some might be strongly shrouded by fate while others were weakly shrouded. Some could not defy it no matter what and some could defy and direct it to some extent. There are also those like me who can foretell it to some extent and avoid our impending doom.\”

The elder than alternated her stares towards Mark and Mei.

\”You two did not have a shred of it. There is no doubt that you two could only be our saviors, especially you, Mark was it?\”

The elder then looked at her grandson and caressed his head with a sad look on her face.

\”Our world is already destined to doom. That is what I saw from the signs. Even those monsters that were previously humans are still bound to fate. Who they attack, who they eat, where they wander, and where they trip. It might look random, however, they were only following what fate dictated. They were only enacting what fate had dictated for us. The only ones that could save us are those not bound by these chains.\”

\”You're not telling me to save the world, are you?\”

Mark asked.

To that question, the elder shook her head.

\”It's already late for that... The world was already facing destruction since all these unfortunate events started. The only places that would be safe were those places where people like you had influence over. Like this place. That is why... I beg you to let our people live here.\”

The elder lowered her head towards Mark and Mei. Both the girl and the boy followed the gestures of their grandmother.